If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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